Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus when the committee finally began confirmation hearings on Jan. 25, Tower performed with the zeal of a new convert to Pentagon parsimony. He assured the Senators that he backed cuts in the Pentagon budget, including reduced funding for strategic missile defense. At the end of Tower's crisp testimony, the Senators burst into rare applause...
...collegial mood changed abruptly on Jan. 31 with the testimony of Paul Weyrich, an archconservative spokesman for right-wing causes. Weyrich openly declared that he had seen the nominee drunk in public and with women other than his wife. That caused the committee's teetotaling chairman Sam Nunn to ask Tower pointedly and in front of television cameras whether he had "any alcoholic problem." Replied Tower: "I have none, Senator. I am a man of some discipline...
...calamity began on Jan. 28, when the captain of the Bahia Paraiso, a naval resupply ship that doubles as a tourist boat, sailed through waters identified on charts as having "dangerous ledges and pinnacles." The ship was shaken by a "terrible jolt," says passenger Nadia Le Bon. "I thought we hit an iceberg." Instead, the ship had struck Full Astern Reef, which ripped a 30-ft. gash through its double hull and into the engine room. With the ship listing and the smell of gasoline thick in the air, the 314 passengers and crew members were rescued unharmed by scientists...
...Jan. 27, and Baker is sitting in the seventh-floor Secretary's office at the State Department watching Bush conduct his first press conference as President. "Pull up your tie, George," says Baker affectionately to the TV screen. "And be careful with the F.M.L.N. question." But no one asks about the peace proposal offered by the leftist guerrilla group in El Salvador that calls itself the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, so Baker responds to an imagined query. He has changed course...
...Planet of the Year issue (Jan. 2), TIME highlighted numerous threats to the earth's environment. The magazine will continue to pursue that story, covering new developments and actions taken to solve ecological problems. This is the first of our follow-up reports...